Hi, For the past few months I have been working (sporadically) on a new backend for Sparse. This backend utilizes a JIT library originally created at Adobe, then used and subsequently abandoned by Mozilla. It is known as NanoJIT. The NanoJIT library is small compared to LLVM and lacks the latter's optimization capabilities. Also there are some limitations in the library that prevent some features of the C language from being supported. The main advantage for me is that it has been relatively easy to implement the backend - the NanoJIT IR is similar to Sparse IR in that it works at a low level - and does not understand aggregate types. Hence in some ways it is a better fit for Sparse than LLVM. I wanted to share following which gives you some idea of the progress made thus far: https://github.com/dibyendumajumdar/dmr_c/tree/master/tests/nano Eventually I think I would like to write my own backend from scratch ... but that is perhaps some way away. Thanks and Regards Dibyendu -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-sparse" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
